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The View From Up Here: The Language and Art of Clouds
A lesson on the water cycle can develop into an exploration of art, and much more.
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Visual Puns or Composite Imagery
Students discover art that contains composite imagery and visual puns. They create their own picture of composite imagery and explain the visual pun. Students develop skills using the drawing media.
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Sunset Silhouette (primary colours)
Students draw and paint the sunset, learning about the primary colors while painting and mixing.
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Catch a Dream
Students apply the concepts of air pressure, the Bernoulli Effect, and angle of attack to build their own model planes out of paper, plastic, wooden rods, and drinking straws.
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Flying Through the Solar System
Learners create a model of the solar system out of candy. They write a book about their travels through the Solar System, beginning at age ten and reaching Pluto at age seventy.
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Monet and Impressionism
Monet is a great artist to study and impressionism is a wonderful art style to practice. Learners read about Monet then attempt to use impressionist painting techniques. Book and image links are included.
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Painting Without A Paintbrush
Students sketch a landscape scene and paint that scene using unconventional "paintbrushes" including forks, knives, squirt bottles, cotton swabs, toothpicks, water containers, and mat board.
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Three D Constellations
Students are introduced to both celestial coordinates and to the first rung on the distance determination ladder. They convert spherical coordinates to Cartesian coordinates to construct a three dimensional model of a constellation...
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Cloud Sort
First graders gain a better understanding of types of clouds. They recreate clouds using Kidspiration. The types of clouds they study about are cirrus, cumulus, and stratus clouds.
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Get Out, Get Active: Three Social Studies Activities Your Students Will Love
Three recommendations to help keep your students engaged via outdoors social studies activities.
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Spinners of Color
Students review primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. They use a worksheet to select the combination of colors they want to try on the spinners. They predict the outcome of the spinning colors.
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Welcome to My World!
Students use maps to locate information. They read the story, "It Looked Like Spilt Milk", view images of the continents and discuss the various continents. Afterward, they make their own Atlas to record information that they can later...
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It Won't Budge: Balloon
Eighth graders use the scientific method to discover why a balloon is not inflated.
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Rotating Rings of Ice
Students work together to develop a model of Saturn and its rings. They identify what types of materials make up the rings and how they revolve around Saturn. They write a short paragraph describing the rings.
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BOUNCING INFORMATION AROUND
Students examine how satellite signals are sent and duplicate it with a mirror, flashlight and black paper.
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One Sun, One Moon
First graders read "Ten Black Dots" by Donald Crews and then create their own counting books focusing on the number 1 (one) and using yellow dots to represent the sun, moon and stars.
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Near and Far Snow People
Pupils study perspective drawing. They create depth on a flat surface by using size and placement and define horizontal line. They investigate the basic techniques of using watercolors.
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Shadows
Students measure shadows at different times of the day to determine when a shadow casts its longest and shortest shadows.
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How is Lightning Formed
Students research lightning paying particular attention to how it is formed, where it is most likely to occur, and how most people struck by lightning survive.
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As the Earth Turns
First graders explore why the sun and moon seems to disappear and reappear creating day and night.
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Track the Meteor Storm Online!: Leonid Meteor Showers, Astronomy
Students are guided through an online series of readings and questions to explore the Leonid Meteor Showers and related topics. Modifications are provided for teaching this lesson plan to k-4, 5-8, and 9-12 students.
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Summer Research Program for Science Teachers
Students analyze the optical region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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TE Lesson: Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
Students study the basic concepts of the Global Positioning System and how it increases the accuracy of navigation. They examine trilateration and how the speed of light is used to calculate distances.